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contents
  1. Star Ship
  2. Tiger by the Tail
  3. Witch of the Demon Seas
  4. World of the Mad
  5. Duel on Syrtis
  6. Inside Earth
  7. The Virgin of Valkarion
  8. Lord of a Thousand Suns
  9. Swordsman of Lost Terra The third book of the Story of the Men of Killorn. How Red Bram fought the Ganasthi from the lands of darkness, and Kery son of Rhiach was angered, and the pipe of the gods spoke once more.
  10. Sargasso of Lost Starships
  11. Captive of the Centaurianess The hero is the child of his times, in that his milieu furnishes him with motives and means, and yet the hero seizes the time and shapes it as he will. And he remains an enigma to his contemporaries and to the future. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the strange story of the three whose discoveries and achievements determined the whole course of history. The driving idealism and bold military genius of Dyann Korlas; the mighty wisdom, profound and benign, of Urushkidan; above all, perhaps, the transcendent clarity of mind and inspired leadership of Ballantyne—these molded our century and all centuries to come, and yet we will never understand them, they are too far beyond us and their essential selves must be forever a mystery. Vallabbhai Rasmussen, History of the Twenty-Third Century, v. 1
  12. Security
  13. Sentiment, Inc.
  14. The Temple of Earth
  15. The Chapter Ends
  16. The Sensitive Man
  17. Snowball
  18. Out of the Iron Womb
  19. Catalysis
  20. What Shall It Profit?
  21. The Valor of Cappen Varra
  22. Innocent at Large By Poul Anderson and Karen Anderson
  23. Industrial Revolution
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Short Fiction

Poul Anderson

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genres

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  • Fantasy
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Short Fiction by Poul Anderson. The text is in the US public domain, from the Standard Ebooks edition. Served from our own copy; read on their site for the full edition with images and typography.

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